Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual student the question of the value of a college education assumes a significance which it has hitherto lacked. Today education involves sacrifice, in greater or less degree, for almost everyone. Until now most Americans have gone to college because it never occurred to them not to; today such luxury cannot be afforded. The question on application blanks for every institution in the country-- Why do you want to go to college?"-- has at last become a question which every student must honestly face and for which every student must have a valid answer...
...individual student the question of the value of a college education assumes a significance which it has hitherto lacked. Today education involves sacrifice, in greater or less degree, for almost everyone. Until now most Americans have gone to college because it never occurred to them not to; today such luxury cannot be afforded. The question on application blanks for every institution in the country--Why do you want to go to college?"--has at last become a question which every student must honestly face and for which every student must have a valid answer...
...Harvard University to men of "highest honors." This year, fifty-five men, the largest number over to be so distinguished, are to receive this recognition of their attainment. To the average undergraduate, however, the word Detur represents either a misspelling or, somehow, an intricate, incomprehensible pun. There has hitherto been no attempt to publicize the institution of Deturs, and small fault can be found with such an attitude. But as peculiarly a Harvard tradition, as a valuable incentive to scholarship, and as interesting to the booklovers, the Detur is worthy of greater fame. The suggestion that each House should display...
...Only the hitherto passive members of the Legion or an organized opposition such as the National Economy League can force the leaders of the American Legion to follow their sense of obligation to the nation and to "make right the master of might...
...OCTOBER-Sigurd Hoel-Coward-McCann ($2). Second-prizewinner in a recent Inter-Scandinavian Fiction Contest; much grimmer than Author Hoel's Sinners in Summertime. NAPOLEON-Hilaire Belloc-Lippincott ($4). For admirers of Belloc's indefatigable partisanries. LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS TO THE BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS-Button ($2.50). Hitherto unpublished letters of an aging novelist to a lady charitarian. A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Reviewed next week...